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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a surprise phone call Monday from President Donald Trump, who dismissed concerns that AI poses an existential threat to humanity and insisted he opposes calls to slow the development of frontier AI.
While speaking on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, Mr. Hwang answered a phone call and put Mr. Trump on speakerphone to an audience of several thousand people, video of the event shared by the paper shows. all in podcast.
“I’m telling you, this is all a hoax,” President Trump said. “Data centers are great, they make people rich, they make states rich. This is the oil of the next 20 to 25 years.”
President Trump said his critics were being “taken over by a lot of people who don’t want that to happen.”
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was speaking on stage at the All In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday when he received a surprise phone call from President Donald Trump. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
“It could be politicians, it could be China. We’re not going to allow that to happen,” Trump said.
The president also rejected the idea that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity.
“Robots are not going to take over the world,” the president added.
Separately on Monday, President Trump shared a series of Truth Social posts defending AI development and criticizing calls for tighter regulation.
“AI taking over the world, destroying humanity, and everything else bad is a hoax,” Trump wrote.
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President Trump also rejected the idea that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
President Trump’s comments come as debate over the safety of AI intensifies in Silicon Valley and Washington.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay over the weekend urging the industry to “slow down” on frontier AI development.
Amodei argued that while AI has the potential to bring significant benefits, companies will need to strengthen their safeguards as the technology becomes more capable.
“AI poses risks, and these risks are serious because AI is a very powerful technology. I have written a lot about them too. They include the risk of losing control of AI systems, the misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and severe economic disruption,” Amodei wrote.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay over the weekend urging the industry to “slow down” on frontier AI development. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The essay also received support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
“Dario is right,” Musk wrote to X.
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Altman agreed, writing, “I agree with Dalio that we need to match the pace of the frontier. This has been a major theme we have been discussing at OpenAI in recent weeks.”
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